Steven Spielberg Talks Schindler S List S Cemetery Ending

Famed director Steven Spielberg has recently talked about the last scene in Schindler’s List. The director revealed that the final scene of the film is a reminder to the viewers that everything that happened in the movie is true. Spielberg believes he needed to confront the message in the film since the world needed to hear it.

The final scene of the film Schindler’s List shows the holocaust survivors visiting the grave of real-life Oskar Schindler. It was revealed that the said scene was a late addition to the film, and the director decided to include it to ensure the audience knew that the movie happened in real life. Spielberg’s decision to end the film as such led Schindler’s List to win an Oscar for Best Film Editing in 1994, among six other wins.

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Deadline reports as the two-time Academy Award winner tells The Sunday Times, “Holocaust denial was on the rise again — that was the entire reason I made the movie in 1993… That ending was a way to verify that everything in the movie was true.” The director added, “It had a vital message that is more important today than it even was in 1993 because antisemitism is so much worse today than it was when I made the film.”

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Schindler’s List Is One of Steven Spielberg’s Masterpieces

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Schindler’s List is a film released in 1993 based on the 1982 novel Schindler’s Ark by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally. The historical drama film follows the life of industrialist Oskar Schindler who saved thousands of lives during World War II by employing thousands of Polish-Jewish refugees from the Holocaust. Steven Spielberg’s film tackles the struggles and victories of a single man who made a difference in the world through his noble act. His tribulations at the time have helped humanity survive one of the darkest times in human history.

Steven Spielberg sent a powerful political message to the world through the film. The director earned so much praise for the movie, which also helped him win his first Oscar for Best Director. The film won six more Oscar awards that year, such as Best Picture, Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published, Best Original Score, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, and Best Film Editing. The film also became one of the highest-grossing black and white films, with a worldwide box office of $321.3 million.